New York: Institute for Human Development, c. 1970. Sixteen placards, each 8 x 8", housed in the publisher's original folder. The placards are illustrated in color by Judith Savard, some of them incorporating photographs and quotes. A beautiful portfolio which grew out of the antipoverty "Summer in the City" program..... More
Severn Head, Ikebukuro, Japan: Sect 7, 1991. First edition. 8vo, [24] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in English. First issue, and the only issue we've encountered, of this anarchist cyberpunk journal published in Japan, and named for the legendary Sect 6 zine originally published during the Ampo struggle in 1960. Coverage..... More
New York: School for Democracy, 1942. 8vo, 22 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. A course catalog for the School for Democracy, founded by Selsam and others at 13 Astor Place and associated with the CPUSA. The faculty and lecturers listed for the four month periodi are staggering, including Gwendolyn Bennett, Langston Hughes..... More
Waldport, Oregon: The Illiterati, 1945. First edition. Small 4to. Offset printed in several colors and saddle-stapled wraps. The fourth installment of The Illiterati, one of the greatest little magazines of the twentieth century, published from the conscientous objector's camp at Waldport, Oregon. The magazine would have an incalculable and still..... More
San Francisco: Spring Mobilization Committee, 1967. 3 panel brochure, folded size 4 x 8 7/8", printed on white paper. Pamphlet announcing the Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam, a series of events held in New York and San Francisco on April 15, 1967, which on the west coast..... More
![Item #28679 Amsterdams Weekblad Nos. 1-17, 19-33, 35-45 [43 issues, with Poster]. Squatting](/pictures/thumb/28679.jpg?v=1584108304)
Amsterdam: Amsterdams Weekblad, 1972-1973. Small 4to, with some later issues in larger format, 12-16 pp. per issue. Unbounded, folded sheets with spot color covers. Profusely illustrated. Text in Dutch. A significant run of this weekly periodical from the Dutch underground which focused upon municipial planning and zoning issues and urban..... More
San Francisco: Student Mobilization Committee, 1967. 8 /2 x 14" flyer, illustrated with a photogaph of a protest. Flyer issued for the Call to Vietnam Week, listing the national sponsors along with a statement on the war by the committee. Folded twice. Very good. More
Paris: Le Mouvement Surrealiste, 1956. First edition. 8 1/2 x 11”, printed on recto only on handmade, speckled brown paper. Surrealist tract protesting the recent election of 52 members of the Poujadiste movement, accusing them of fascism, and drawing attention to the war in Algeria and the fate of Algerians..... More
Paris: 1963. First edition. 8 5/8 x 11", offset printed in black on yellow paper. Text in French and Spanish. A manifesto prompted by an exchange of undesirables between France and Spain, with an attack on Malraux. With the printed signatures of Philippe Audoin, Jean-Louis Bedouin, Robert Benayoun, Vincent Bounoure..... More
[San Francisco]: c. 1967-68. 8 1/2 x 14" broadside, gestetnered in 3 colors on yellow paper flecked with red strands. This appears to be one of the Free City News sheets issued by the Diggers following the appropriation of the Communication Company Gestnetners, matching their renewed approach to color and..... More
[San Francisco]: The Communication Company, [1967]. 8 1/2 x 11" leaflet, mimeographed from typescript. Offsetting to margins, with some faint creasing and a 1" spot of soiling to right margin, else very good. More
[San Francisco]: Communication Company, [1967]. 8 1/2 x 11" sheet of yellow watermarked Mead Bond paper hole-punched along left margin (as issued) and mimeographed from typescript. Some faint toning to margins and some faint handling creases else fine. More
San Francisco: Communication Company, [1967]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, mimeographed from typescript. A rare petition handbill printed by the Communication Company, calling for Haight Street be closed to vehicular traffic from Stanyan Street to Masonic Street during the weekends to ease overcrowding. Given that most examples would likely have..... More
np: nd [c. late 960's]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, offset printed on recto only, with some orange hand-coloring. 1.5" area of staining to verso, bleeding through slightly to left margin of recto, else very good. More
San Francisco: Order of Maximilian, c. 1970]. Single sheet folded twice to make a 3 panel leaflet. Offset printed on orange paper. Prospectus outlining the aims of the conscientous objector and anti-war group, named after the 3rd century Roman saint and martyr Maximilian of Tebessa, and composed largely of clergymen..... More
![Item #30314 Manhood. The Facts of Life Presented to Men [People's Pocket Series No. 91]. Charles...](/images/noimage.png)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in blue wraps. Gibbs' 91a, but possibly a variant unnoted by Gibbs, with the Appeal Pocket Series title page but with the PPS (c) binding, in blue wraps. Foreword by Philip Snowden. More
Zurich, Vienna, Prague: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1933. First edition. 8vo, 254 pp, bound in full slate blue cloth with red blind-stamped titles. Printed dust jacket. The first edition of the third book in the Mahogany series, and the first book published by the Buchergilde Gutenberg following the seizure of the Berlin..... More
Hamburg: [Quer-Verlag], 1968. First edition. Oblong 16mo. Mimeographed on white paper, with red card section dividers. Stapled into red wraps, which are tipped into aluminium boards with red tape. Illustrated title pastedown to front panel. Perhaps the first book ever to be designed as a weapon. Kampfreime is a collection..... More
[Paris]: Ministere de la Defense Nationale de la Guerre, c. 1940. 5 1/4 x 9" sheet, offset printed on newsprint. A strikingly designed leaflet distributed to French citizens to keep it dark at night to reduce visibility from the air during bombings, illustrated with a stark and powerful illustration of..... More
San Francisco: Alternatives. The Modern Utopian, 1971. First edition. 8vo, 7 + [3] pp, mimoeographed from typescript and laid into a mimeographed card folder. Addressed and postmarked in the year of publication. A short pamphlet presenting three short texts which seems aimed largely at urban and suburban folk wishing to..... More
Np: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 " broadside, letterpress printed with Cheltenham type. Of three paper variants, this example is on light green paper stock. Among the earliest ephemera from the press, dating from the Collins St. days. The simple design gives the text, a powerful manifesto..... More
[San Francisco]: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 5 1/2 x 7" broadside, linocut and zinc block print on fluorescent crack-n-peel sticker backing. Illustrated with a found zinc block print of a photograph of S. I. Hayakawa and Mickey Mouse, who is here identified in the caption as Ed Davis, who was the..... More
[San Francisco]: [Zephyrus Image], nd. Approximately 5 1/2 x 7" die-cut broadside, linocut and zinc block print on fluorescent crack-n-peel sticker backing. Illustrated with a found zinc block print of a photograph of S. I. Hayakawa and Mickey Mouse, who is here identified in the caption as Ed Davis, who..... More
Np: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 ", broadside on red crack and peel paper with backing still intact. Peter Howard, in the Serendipity Books catalog of the Holbrook Teter archive (no. 43), suggests that this was directed at the Republican culture of fear, and that "one can..... More
